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BJ's Restaurants: Warming Up or Cooling Off?

Fri, 06/08/2010 - 11:04 by Motley Fool

Together, we are all trying to build our fortunes by finding well-run companies at bargain-basement prices. But it takes work to scour earnings reports, scrutinize key data, and assess the competition.

To help you out, we've created a screen based on the massive data aggregated from the more than 165,000 investors competing on ourMotley Fool CAPSplatform. Each quarter, we check in on select companies after they file a 10-Q and track community sentiment to help you see how your company is doing.

Here's our CAPS community's sentiment onBJ's Restaurants(Nasdaq:BJRI)both for this quarter and last (for comparison), as well as opinions on some related companies.

Metric

BJ's Restaurants

Yum! Brands(NYSE:YUM)

eLong(Nasdaq:LONG)

Gaming Partners International(Nasdaq:GPIC)

This Quarter (8/4/2010):

Price:

$25.95

$41.75

$12.72

$6.79

% of Members Rating Outperform

80%

96%

88%

92%

% of All-Star Members Rating Outperform

87%

97%

86%

93%

CAPS Rating (out of 5)

**

****

**

*****

Last Quarter (5/6/2010):

Price:

$22.89

$39.86

$11.02

$7.50

% of Members Rating Outperform

78%

96%

89%

92%

% of All-Star Members Rating Outperform

88%

97%

88%

94%

CAPS Rating (out of 5)

**

****

**

*****

Source: Motley Fool CAPS. Dates given are the posting dates of BJ's Restaurants' most recent quarterly and/or annual reports to the SEC's website. Percentages are calculated from the number of members rating each company.

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